In a visit to Kabul this morning, Secretary of State Colin Powell said the US would re–remain committed to Afghanistan for a long time, and that Washington would make a significant contribution to its rebuilding. Powell met with interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai immediately after his arrival.

The body of the seventh Marine killed in last week’s crash of a refueling plane in Pakistan was given a color guard salute as it was put on a plane for the trip home.

And a student at the Appalachian School of Law in Virginia is under arrest for the shooting deaths of the school’s dean, a professor and another student. The alleged gunman had been dismissed from the school.